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(Penelope couldn’t believe that this beggar really was her beloveth husband even after her son Telemachos revealed the truth to her. As Odysseus stood in front of her, she tested him with a secret, only he could know...

Odysseus:
“My queen, which god above freezes thy heart and love.
I only want to lay my tired body down.”

Penelope:
”Oh no, for sure I see my Odysseus in thee.
Maid! Translate his bed that he can rest from strain.”

Odysseus:
“Alas! What mortal strength can move that bed by hands.
Around that olive tree it must withstand all times.”)


While yet he speaks, her powers of life decay;
She sickens, trembles, falls and faints away.
Nor had they ended till the morning ray,
But Pallas backward held the rising day.
The wheels of night retarding,
To detain Aurora in the wavy main;
Whose flaming steeds, emerging through the night.
Beam over the eastern hills with streaming light.




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